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  1. hooralph
    While it was misting/raining last night about 7 PM and I figured that was it for the event, went outside this morning to discover a weird layer of graupel on grassy and colder surfaces. Edit: that was my 1000th post.
  2. hooralph
    meh. down to snizzle.
  3. hooralph
    For now - as of 12:34 - full on snow globe on the UWS with fat flakes. Grass by Riverside drive getting covered.
  4. hooralph
    Pingers!
  5. hooralph
    First flakes flying on UWS.
  6. hooralph
    It may have stuck more in my mind as we were coming off several pretty bleak winters and it was my first chance for a big storm in 5 years (I moved back to Boston in April 97 two weeks after the blizzard). Walt, your AFD's were always a riveting reading! I always learned a lot and your passion always came through. In the days long before most pro mets would dare to tread in the waters of these boards, your AFD's felt like they were written for us weenies! As the March 2001 storm approached I was emailed you directly in my delirium to ask questions and couldn't believe you took the time to respond.
  7. hooralph
    Also late to the party re: 12/30/00, but I suspect that one inflicted some trauma on @wdrag. That remains the greatest bust of my lifetime in Boston metro. If I recall, NWS had to walk back the WSW from 8-14" (may have been 10-16") down to 4-8... 3-6... and in the city we wound up with - I swear - wet pavement. Nada after an hour of wet snow it both changed over and we got dry slotted. Incredible. Outside of 128 I think it was a 10" storm, but inside it was a total bust and the gradient reached 0 in the city.
  8. hooralph
    Also late to the Party... Blizzard of 96 remains my all-time favorite. Had just returned to C'Ville from winter break... did so early knowing storm was coming. No school yet, nothing to do. 23" that fell was more impactful than storms I've experienced since in Boston and NYC because they couldn't keep up with plowing of course!
  9. hooralph
    Thanks, Don! That's odd... I'll have to look at the raw data. This is an ingestion of the raw daily data from NOAA Climate Data Online. The only transformation i did was to decode the years to be a snowfall season and it appears to have worked overall. (i.e. so Jan '96 is part of the 1995-1996 season).
  10. hooralph
    Thought I'd throw this in here... Christmas break project - Downloaded the full climo data set for CPK with a goal of creating some simple, easy to navigate data sets and visualizations... As soon as I started I realize "I should wait until this weekend and have all of 2020... So until then, here's monthly and seasonal snow totals, sortable...
  11. hooralph
    I loved that storm. I’ll take 10” a week before Christmas any year over stressing whether we have an inch on the ground on 12/25. The city is magical right now. We haven’t had a snowfall with staying power like this in a long time. And in December?
  12. hooralph
    I measured 7" on the ground on Riverside Drive this morning, so glad to hear CPK reported 10" Anyone lamenting the fact that we didn't reach the high end potential has to go outside and absorb the fact that we have - at least here in the city - 7-10" of powdery snow blowing and drifting a week before Christmas. It is spectacular outside.
  13. hooralph
    I'll take whatever we get this winter, but I am looking forward to any picturesque snow we get. We moved this fall and are right by Riverside Park... there are many Jebwalks in my future and I'll be amping my snow photography game again. We also have a good line of sight across multiple blocks that will allow me to estimate visibility with precision. So bring (whatever) on...
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